Cruises from State Pier through Mount Hope and Narragansett bays will start in June, in what officials said is another opportunity to attract tourism in the city.

The Harbor Queen announced this week it will run lunch and dinner cruises, along with chartered excursions, starting June 16 and continuing through September. The first event will be May 31, a dinner cruise sponsored by the Fall River Area Chamber of Commerce & Industry, one of the partners that helped bring the boat line to the city.

“We see tremendous potential there,” Mike O’Hare, a part-time consultant for the Harbor Queen, said of Fall River and what he called its pro-business atmosphere.

Mayor Will Flanagan called the cruises the latest in a series of advancements for the waterfront, along with dinner and themed trains that ran in April, environmental remediation underway at City Pier, a commitment from the state for $1.5 million for repairing portions of the riverfront boardwalk, and proceeding plans to turn Route 79 along the waterfront into a more pedestrian-friendly boulevard.

Flanagan is also working to get a ferry service from Fall River to Block Island. He hopes to have an announcement on that initiative by the end of the month, he said.

“A priority of mine has been to increase economic activity and tourism here in the city, especially along our city’s waterfront,” Flanagan said.

The Harbor Queen also gives area residents a chance to enjoy the water in ways many haven’t before — and will attract people from outside the area, the mayor said.

The dinner cruises will start June 16 and be held the following two Saturdays of the month. In July, August and part of September, dinner cruises will run each Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, O’Hare said. Lunch cruises will start in July, running every Wednesday and alternating Saturdays and Sundays each weekend.

Dinner cruises will last roughly three hours and cost $54 per person, including a meal. Lunch runs will last about two and a half hours and cost $40 including food.

The Harbor Queen, an 85-foot, two-deck, 150-passenger boat, will also be available for chartered cruises out of Fall River, O’Hare said. The boat will also be used this summer for trips out of Quincy for Tall Ships in Boston from June 30 to July 4, and for Tall Ships in Newport, R.I., out of Warren, R.I., from July 6 to July 9.

Tickets for the May 31 cruise can be purchased by calling the Chamber of Commerce at 508-676-8226. Tickets for other Harbor Queen cruises can be purchased by calling 774-444-2000 or visiting www.harborqueencruise.com.